As an ecommerce business owner, let's face it. Online shoppers today are smarter and more cautious, and they know that a website without credentials, support, and security can put them at risk. Therefore one of the greatest assets you can have is trust. If your customers trust you they will buy from you. The more trust and credibility your website has, the more sales you will make.

Trust can be achieved from your customers, whether you have a trust seal or not. But the fact is that Over 71% of online shoppers look specifically for third party seals of approval when they visit a website (based on a recent national survey conducted by Consumer Reports).

Today building an Ecommerce website is much easier and it will cost you much less money than before. So you don't need to stay with EBay and other platforms just because you don't have enough money to build your own Ecommerce website.

There are mainly 2 ways for you to build your own Ecommerce website: get a professional website designer or Do It Yourself.

The quickest and easiest way to build a website is to find a professional website designer to perform the tasks. It is highly recommended if you don't know much things about HTML, PHP/ASP and database programming.

I have written posts both about the advantages and disadvantages of EBay business, and today I will cover the advantages of stand-alone Ecommerce websites, which is a better choice of your online business.

As I mentioned before, the EBay business has disadvantages such as high long-term cost, too much of competition and hard to control, etc. Those are the opposite of stand-alone Ecommerce websites. The Advantages of a stand-alone Ecommerce website are as follows:

In last post I suggest that you start your online business by selling you stuff on EBay first. And if you do every thing right, I am sure that you can make many money from your EBay Business. I know many people have quit their job and make a decent living as a full time EBayer.

However as I mentioned before, I don't think you should take your EBay business as your ideal business model forever. Because although it is easy to start, from a long-term point of view, EBay and Other 3rd party auction sites have many inherent disadvantages.

Many people think online business is an easy and safe way to make money online. This is only part of the truth, however. Because Online businesses are also as risky as offline businesses, if you don't know what to sell and how to sell. You need to practice your business skills before you dive into the business world. So it's better for you to start you online business to sell your used stuff on auction sites.

I suggest you take EBay as your starting point, as it is the largest auction website and attract hundreds of thousands of buyers every day. If you search the articles under the category of auction in those article directories, you will find most of these articles are about EBay. Yes nowadays, auction website almost equals EBay.

EBay is a good place for a new entrepreneur because it has following benefits: